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Aug 23, 2023 · Comedian John Clarke's weekly dissection of dissembling bureaucrats and political obscurantists was a much-loved part of this program for years.
Apr 10, 2017 · Clarke was the antithesis of excess and profoundly at odds with the dominant celebrity culture. Instead, he has been a voice from the immediate past in this era of globalisation, media glut and...
- Robert Phiddian
Apr 10, 2017 · Entertainment. Farnarkeling in Heaven: RIP John Clarke. By Patrick Marlborough. April 10, 2017, 3:30am. John Clarke was the greatest comedian in the history of Australia, even if he was a Kiwi....
- Patrick Marlborough
Apr 10, 2017 · The New Zealand-born comedian and writer was famous in Australia for sending up politicians and conducting mock interviews in a television career spanning almost 30 years. Among his many hits,...
John Cooper Clarke (born 25 January 1949) is an English performance poet and comedian who styled himself as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums.
Apr 11, 2017 · John Clarke, the New Zealand–born satirist who arrived in Australia in the 1970s and acquired a nasal local accent that he then deployed deadpan to devastating effect, once tried his hand at a definition of satire: “Noun: a reaction to the process whereby politicians and public figures hold the community up to ridicule and contempt.”.
Aug 30, 2023 · A laconic presence on our one and only TV channel in the mid-to-late 70s, John Clarke’s rural creation strolled into the national consciousness in oversize gumboots and black singlet, proof...
